Usher: It's Been a Long Time
Usher feat. Ludacris: "Dat Girl Right There"
from Usher's forthcoming untitled album
It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you, but I was stymied by the perilous Interweb and all its trappings. But nothing could bring me out of blog hiding like a perplexingly weird R&B production. And damn if that isn't exactly what Usher's new (maybe) single is. The driving sound, a synth that sounds like Tinkerbell dancing on a epically out-of-tune guitar, is maybe the weirdest I've heard since The Notorious B.I.G.'s postumous mixtape cut "Jeans and Sneakers." What makes it stranger is Usher is a MAJOR star, in a way R&B singers aren't right now. He's also been hiding, albeit for years now, since his last album Confessions became one of the decade's best-selling. So "Dat Girl Right There" feels risky. But if people warm to its weirdness, it could well become a song as strangely intoxicating and ubiquitous as Andre 3000's "Hey Ya" or one of those Gorillaz singles. Never underestimate the public's desire to be weirded out.
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